Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Star Saga
Chapter One
The Loop of Infinity
In an alternate era seventeen years into the future, Neo Domino City had surpassed even evolution itself and made mankind's imagination into a reality. They had created structures that hovered over the whole city, modernized dueling lanes, and other gadgets that seemingly made life taste sweet. Because of technology, the people enjoyed life's daily routine but this itself led them to their downfall. With the situation in present, there was no moment of solitude: everyday would pass by boisterously with machines spread in every part of the city. To some people, it was not a healthy environment to live in.
Yuza, a fifteen-year-old teenage girl, was one of those people. She has yellow-streaked dark burgundy hair with the back portion tied, forming a hanging single short strand, majestic brown eyes, and a face comparable to the beauty of roses. She would often wonder the meaning there was to life, feeling that everyday seemed like a routine, a never-ending loop which she can't escape from. Her outlook in life was probably affected by the state of her family: her father died fifteen years ago while trying to save the city from an unknown entity. Most of the times, her mother, grandparents, and family friends would keep her company but her attitude remained cold and blank, someone a normal person couldn't read.
"I'm going, mom," said Yuza as she finished breakfast. She was dressed in her usual school attire, composed of a blouse and a short skirt, which matched the color of her hair.
"Take care, honey," replied her mother.
The class was going to Neo Domino Museum for a school trip today. Yuza always loved going there because it takes her away from the exhausting technology of the city. Unlike the city in its entirety, the museum was preserved to look as if it were ancient. While walking on the museum, there was one thing that caught the young girl's attention. It was a stone tablet with twelve panels embedded on it, each one containing a mark of an animal. On the middle was an infinity loop that stretched down the whole tablet and on top of it was written 'Infinity'. She noticed that the loop on the tablet resembled the necklace a mysterious old man had given her a long time ago.
Without even thinking, she touched the tablet and the necklace glowed a bright yellow light. Moments after, there were voices speaking in her head at a rapid pace. It was very unusual that she felt fear during that moment. No one was there to hurt her or any of her friends but she felt that danger was coming.
"Infinity," the dark voice said. Yuza felt that her head would crack open until she heard an old man speak.
"My, my, interested in the Star Tablet, aren't you, miss?" asked the mysterious cloaked old man who seemed sickly as the sound of his voice suggests. "How I wish everything would turn to the way it was, when I could still live in the mountains at peace. May I ask? What is your name?"
"I-I-I'm Yuza..." she stuttered, feeling nervous and weary of the old man. On the other hand, she thought that the old man is somehow familiar. She felt as if she already met him before.
"That's a great name," said the old man. Before the old man could continue to speak, Yuza heard her friend say that they were about to go. She bid him goodbye before leaving.
Yuza was happy after the trip to the museum, a characteristic unusual to her blank and hard-to-read attitude. But that feeling quickly faded when she took sight of the hundreds of gigantic machines soaring in the sky. They were unlike what she had seen before, not even comparable to a degree. The machines were Machine Emperors. Yuza could already hear thousands of people shouting in panic as if it were doomsday. The army had already countered, using their own firepower and dueling to fend off the uncontrolled machines. This was what evolution brought into mankind: destruction.
The teenage girl ran as fast as she could, the wind touching her face with every step she took, in order to get back home and tell her family that they should escape from the city now. But when she got there, she arrived at nothing but an empty house. She was too late. Tears fell down from her two starry eyes.
"Where...are...they?" she asked herself. Her eyes widened as she heard the sound of a machine just inches away from her. It was pure white in color and has light green outlines. She thought to herself that if everything had come to this, she won't go down without fighting for herself. But even before she could fight back, the Macihne Emperor grabbed her using its gigantic fist. She struggled against the tight hold of the first and screamed as if she were being electrified until a powerful spherical blast hit the colossal machine, causing it to release her.
"Absolute Power Force!" Yuza heard someone shout as another spherical blast landed on the seemingly paralyzed machine's body.
She thought that this could only be done by one person, the former King. She was right. From the fog of dust formed from the impact of the collision emerged a tall blonde man wearing a black coat with grayish patterns. One look at him and you would sense the intimidation of his aura, the greatness of his pride that he achieved. Behind him was the embodiment of evil itself, the dragon of the Red Demon.
"Go!" demanded Jack. "Escape from here." He turned to face the Machine Emperor. "As for you...Burning Soul!" In a sudden, a crimson aura wrapped his whole body.
At first, Yuza hesitated but with a feeling that Jack Atlas can handle the opponent, she ran as fast as she could away from the battlefield. As she ran, she could still hear the painful screams of people from the merciless way of extermination by evolution, and see that bit by bit, the city was falling to pieces. But there was nothing she could do but save herself. She was too weak to fight back. She continued to sprint, her heart racing as she did, until she found herself in the middle of the city: the bridge network that connects the city to Satellite where the large symbol of infinity is erected. To her surprise, the same old man she saw in the museum was there.
"My, my, it seems fate has drawn us to meet again, young lady," said the old man in his usual sickly voice. "Yuza, was it?"
And then, he vanished like a figure fading away from its entire existence. That event shocked the young girl but what came next proved to be more shocking: a golden Machine Emperor came into sight, approximately twice the size of the last one. It was a frightening feeling but this time, she wasn't anymore scared. She was confident that she could take care of herself and fight back. This triggered the infinity necklace on her neck to glow once more. From it visualized a pure yellow aura the surrounded her whole body and even her two precious eyes. She raised her arms and fired an energy arrow towards the machine but in the end, she was still weak.
She was overpowered by the Machine Emperor's firepower and was left drifting into the depths of water under the bridge. It was a refreshing feeling to her that the routine of suffering would finally end but at the same time, she regretted that hadn't brought out life to its full extent because of her weakness. But just about the time she was to drift in the endless eternity, bright light flashed before her and when she opened her eyes, she was in a place of nothing but white light.
"Where...am...I?" asked Yuza, looking at the emptiness of the place.
"You are in my sanctuary," replied a deep voice that came out of nowhere. "I am God. We shall change the tides of time...together."
"What? I-I...don't understand," said Yuza, stuttering. But before she could continue to speak, white light flashed before her again. This time, when she opened her eyes, she was at the middle of the city, lying beneath the infinity symbol. Looking at the sky gave a different aura to her: the sky was dark and there were no structures hovering the city except for the one near them covered with dark energy. Someone else was there, a cloaked man watching her.
"You finally woke up, Yuza," said the cloaked man, revealing his face. He had yellowish orange hair similar to that of a lion's, pure yellow eyes, and a beard that matches the color of his hair. "I am the one who gave you that Infinity necklace."
"Wait a minute, you are that old man?" asked Yuza, the man nodded.
"I am Regulus," said the man even before the teenage girl would ask who he was. "Come. They are waiting for you in the Star Dimension."
A new journey begins. And so continues the loop of infinity.
Chapter 2 Preview
Yuza: Where am I?
?: Don't cry, Little Yuza. Everything will be fine.
Yuza: Next time on Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Star Saga, Present and Future!
Jack: He's still out there. I'm going to find him.